Uranium 'double standards', says ACF

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has accused the South Australian Government of double standards on uranium mining.

There are plans to extend the Beverley uranium mine in outback SA, but David Noonan from the ACF says it would lead to radioactive liquid being pumped into ground water in the Flinders Ranges.

He says the Government seems set to approve the proposal, despite having banned another company Marathon Resources from uranium mining exploration at Arkaroola because of contamination concerns there.

"The State Government has got a clear contradiction in ... their so-called standards, you can't on one side of the fence order people to take away inappropriately-buried radioactive waste, and on the other side of the fence deliberately arrange for a US nuclear corporation to dump liquid waste in ground water," he said.